Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world more than they are doing now. Christians should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the...
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others. from Letters and Papers from...
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word. There should be singing, not only...
The followers of Christ have been called to peace ... And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods ... His disciples keep the peace by choosing to...
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. from God is in the Manger
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.
Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief in God.
The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
The Church is not to be a national community like the old Israel, but a community of believers without political or national ties.
Through Christ's incarnation, all of humanity regains the dignity of bearing the image of God. Whoever from now attacks the least of people attacks Christ, who took on human form and who in himself has restored the image of God for all who bear a human countenance....